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There is an old riddle that goes, “If a tree falls in the forest but no one hears it, does it make a sound?” You could also say, if someone says something mean about you but you don’t know it, does it matter?

When someone does or says something mean or rude and doesn’t tell you, we say it’s behind your back. Let’s say your best friend makes fun of your outfit. If it happens behind your back, you can’t see or hear it happening. You don’t know about it. So, it can’t really hurt your feelings…unless you find out about it later.

If you find out that someone said or did something mean behind your back, you might feel betrayed. For example, you might wish that your friend had just been honest with you about your outfit, or told you to your face how she felt about it. Saying something to someone’s face is the opposite of saying it behind their back.

On the TV show Mad Men, January Jones plays a housewife in the 1960s. January thinks that in the 60s, men talked about women behind their backs. But they still acted like gentlemen to their faces. In her opinion, it is important to act polite to people in person, even if you are rude to them behind their backs.

Do you ever gossip about people behind their backs? Has anyone ever said anything mean about you behind your back? How did you find out?

when you say or do something behind someone does not mean it is a BAD thing.Good and Bad things can be done behind people.Surprise parties are mostly organized behind the people that it's being arranged for and it's a good thing.it has to be arranged behind that person cause it's MEAN to be a SURPRISE.

Everyone has already criticized or told something mean once behind someone's back,I'm not different…I'm not to use to say bad things behind someone's back I prefer to say in your face! And I also prefer people say something in my face,I deal with sincere people much better :) Sometimes I'm target of gossip from people who dislike me,course…Do you know what I do? I shit and walk!!!! hahaha

I'm totally agree with Rosendo :) and lets have a look at this from another side. If someone talk about you behind you back it means you are still important, and ppl aer not indifferent to your personality ))

Talking about someone behind their backs is soooooo mean! I have discovered that my friends talk behind my back and I felt really bad, but not anymore.. This has affected my relationship with them, I cant trust them anymore.

That is correct to say I'm not perfect. But is wrong to say I'm not looking for perfection, or I don't want to be perfect. Talk behind someone's back, with evil intentions will never bring good things to none.If I don’t want the evil to me, I can’t do the evil onto others. Although not all conversation behind someone’s back is with evil intention. So we need to understand the intention in our own heart, because God already knows that (at least for whom believe in Him – Jeremiah 17:9-11).